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Many well-known faces were among the "core participants" giving evidence

Big-name actors and the families of some high-profile victims of crime joined other public figures and ordinary people at the Leveson Inquiry to call for press regulation and tighter controls on British tabloids.

Mrs Dowler said they had called the 13-year-old's phone repeatedly in the weeks after she went missing, but the voicemail had become full.

She said she was able to access it again later after some of the messages were deleted when the phone was hacked, and recalled telling friends: "She's picked up her voicemail, she's picked up her voicemail".

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Media captionHugh Grant questioned whether a burglary at his flat might have been instigated by the press

The Hollywood actor said he could not think of any other way it could have got its story in 2007 about his conversations with a "plummy voiced" woman - although the MoS later "utterly refuted" his claim.

Mr Grant also accused the Sun and Daily Express of invading his privacy by publishing details of his medical record, which he claimed they had "appropriated... for commercial profit".

And his lengthy evidence revealed he and girlfriends had been "chased at speed" by paparazzi.

Other witnesses due at the Royal Courts of Justice in London next week include singer Charlotte Church, broadcaster Anne Diamond, and Chris Jefferies, the landlord of murdered architect Joanna Yates, who was falsely accused by various tabloids of being her killer.